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Headache attributable to insufficiency of yáng qì that fails to bear upward to the head. Yáng vacuity headache is a dull headache accompanied by aversion to light, fear of cold and cold limbs, fatigue and lack of strength, poor appetite, pale tongue, and a pulse that is faint or fine or sunken and slow or large, vacuous, and forceless.

Medicinal therapy: Supplement qì and support yáng using Aconite Center-Rectifying Decoction (附子理中汤 fù zǐ lǐ zhōng tāng), Chuanxiong and Atractylodes Decoction (芎朮汤 xiōng zhú tāng), or Center-Supplementing Qì-Boosting Decoction (补中益气汤 bǔ zhōng yì qì tāng).

Acumoxatherapy: Base treatment mainly on CV, GV, and ST. Select GV-20 (Hundred Convergences, 百会 bǎi huì), CV-6 (Sea of Qì, 气海 qì hǎi), CV-4 (Pass Head, 关元 guān yuán), GV-4 (Life Gate, 命门 mìng mén), ST-36 (Leg Three Lǐ, 足三里 zú sān lǐ), and BL-20 (Spleen Transport, 脾俞 pí shù); needle with supplementation and add moxa. For selection of points according to affected area, see headache.

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